High Blood Pressure and Kidney Disease: How to Break This Vicious Circle

2017-06-29 08:01

Have you noticed that most patients with high blood pressure have kidney damage more or less? Do you know why? High blood pressure can cause kidney damage, and kidney damage can also cause high blood pressure. How to break this vicious circle?

Clinical observation showed that the less your kidney function, the higher your blood pressure. When your kidney disease develops to kidney failure stage, more than 80% patients have obvious high blood pressure.

If your have uncontrolled high blood pressure (SBP is more than 140mmHg, DBP is more than 90mmHg) continuously, your blood vessels will be damaged, leading to arteriosclerosis so as to affect blood circulation. And then blood flow into kidneys will decrease, leading to renal disorder. Eventually, glomerulosclerosis and renal interstitial fibrosis will occur. With their progression, uremia will appear.

Precautions you should take with high blood pressure and kidney disease

In the daily, you should observe the changes in your body. Though there are no obvious symptoms in the early stage of Hypertensive Nephropathy, some patients may experience frequent urination at night and clear urine, which indicates that concentration function of renal tubule declines. Besides, you may have eyeid swelling or leg swelling in the morning, which may also indicate kidney damage.

Treatment for patients with high blood pressure and kidney disease

You should lower blood pressure and protect kidneys. No matter you have Hypertensive Nephropathy or renal hypertension, during the treatment, you should regularly evaluate kidney function damage degree and blood pressure management.

The most important thing you should do is to stabilize blood pressure and keep it down 130/80mmHg. Only in this way can you protect kidneys effectively. And the earlier you control high blood pressure, the more kidney function you can preserve. Besides western medicine, you can try Chinese medicine, which can help you repair kidney damage and improve kidney function.

High blood pressure and kidney disease are closely associated. If you want to break this vicious circle, you should take treatment as early as possible to lower high blood pressure and protect your kidneys from being damaged. For more information on our hospital and our treatment, please leave a message below or contact online doctor.